“The Greeks were the first mathematicians who are still ‘real’ to us to-day. Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
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I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
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The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
[A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
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We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to… — Cinco Paul Copy Share Image
My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“Did you know, young lady," said Watkin to her, "that the Book of Revelation was written on Patmos? It was indeed. By… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill…[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
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The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
“The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means.… — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
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I read a lot of thrillers because they're easy reading and I'm not a great flier. They take my head out of… — Georgina Chapman Copy Share Image
“I owe a particular debt of gratitude to the following people. This book truly would not have been possible without them. Michelle… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image